The Dive: Arc Community Forum Is Live

When Grant Pinkos and Grant Chase mentioned Arc on the Opto22 forum a couple of weeks ago, something clicked. Their endorsements landed because they came from peers, not from us. Practitioners answering practitioners. Indexed by search engines. Public, durable, and useful three years from now to anyone running into the same question.

We didn't have a place like that for Arc. So we built one.

The Dive is live. It's a public Discourse forum, open from day one, where the conversation about Arc, arcx, Memtrace, and everything Basekick Labs builds can happen out in the open.

Why a forum, when we already have GitHub and Discord

Grant Chase framed the three-tier model better than I could:

• GitHub: bugs and feature requests, code-level
• Public forum: integrations and how-to, indexed and searchable
• Discord: deep technical dives, real-time and ephemeral

Each channel does a different job. The middle one was missing. The questions practitioners actually ask: how do I wire Arc to Telegraf? I'm migrating from InfluxDB, what should I know? What's the right compaction strategy for a multi-year dataset? Those don't belong as GitHub issues, and they get lost in Discord scrollback. They belong in a place that compounds. That's The Dive.

What you'll find there

Seven categories at launch, focused on the work:

• Announcements: releases and news
• Introductions: say hi, share what you're building
• General Q&A: anything that doesn't fit elsewhere
• Migrations: from InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, or wherever you're coming from
• Integrations: Grafana, Telegraf, MQTT, Node-RED, Opto22, Ignition, and more
• Performance & Tuning: schema design, compaction, query patterns
• Show & Tell: what you've built

Forum tags cover the product dimension: arc, arcx, memtrace, liftbridge, plus integration tags.

The tone we're going for

Honest practitioner answers > polished marketing. That's the whole point.

If something works, we'll say so. If it doesn't, we'll say that too. The Dive isn't a vendor venue where we control the narrative. It's a peer space where people who run Arc in production can talk to other people running Arc in production.

If you've ever read a community forum and thought "this is where the real answers are," that's the bar.

Come dive in

The forum lives at community.basekick.net and it's open and public. No login required to read. Account needed to post, and that takes about 30 seconds.

Special thanks to Grant Pinkos and Grant Chase, whose Opto22 forum endorsement was the moment this idea stopped being theoretical and became something we had to ship.

If you've been building on Arc, migrating to it, evaluating it, or you're just curious, come introduce yourself in the Introductions thread. The community starts with you.

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Join The Dive and explore Arc:

• The Dive (community forum)
• Arc Playground: run SQL on live demo datasets, no signup
• https://github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc: source, issues, releases
• Discord: real-time chat with the team and other Arc users
• Documentation: installation, SQL reference, integration guides